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Sunday, May 6, 2007

Paris in jail?

I don't know why, but I don't feel sorry for Paris Hilton at all! 45 days in jail will do her some good! 45 days for her to think about her life, and her many luxuries, and how lucky she has it - to have soooo much money and to not even have to work for it, while so many others are suffering and have nothing. 45 days in jail just might humble her. (But I doubt it - I bet she'll be on the phone with her agents hiring someone to write about her 'dreadful' experience behind bars, so she can make even more money so she can buy even more ugly stupid clothes). The best is her parent's reaction... sure, as parents, they don't want to see their child in jail, but when Kathy said: "After all the money we spent!" I just felt like laughing. She is not going to jail for no reason - she violated her probation, driving her car when she wasn't suppose to. I have ZERO tolerance for people who drive drunk - if you ask me, she should have already been in jail. I actually don't even know if she was charged with driving under the influence, but whatever, I'm sure she's done that before, too...

From www.people.com:

Emotions flared at the Paris Hilton hearing on Friday, according to one eyewitness observer with an exceptionally good view: Mona Shafer Edwards, a freelance courtroom sketch artist with 25 years' experience.

Observing the Hilton family's reaction before and after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer sentenced the 26-year-old hotel heiress to 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation, Edwards tells PEOPLE that while prosecutors were delivering their final statements, Hilton looked down discreetly into her purse at a compact and checked her makeup.

Minutes before the sentence was handed down, according to Edwards, Hilton made the sign of the cross with her right hand, then kissed her fingers.

Judge Sauer was particularly stern with his comments to Hilton, whom, he said, "disregarded everything" by repeatedly driving with a suspended license.

After the general public had cleared the courtroom, Hilton began to tear up. Sheriffs brought her a box of Kleenex, and she held a wad of tissues to her face as she placed her head down.

Kathy Hilton, red in the face, then walked up to one of the prosecutors and screamed, "You're pathetic." She then asked sarcastically, "Can I have your autograph?"

The prosecutor to whom Hilton had delivered her outburst completely ignored her, said Edwards.

About half a dozen sheriffs' deputies then approached Kathy Hilton, who screamed at them, "Don't you touch me, don't you touch me."

As the family was about to exit the courtroom, said Edwards, Kathy Hilton declared for all to hear, "[The judge] made up his mind before he even came in today. If it were anyone else, this would've never had happened."

She then exclaimed, "And after all the money we spent!" Hilton's attorney, Howard Weitzman, vows to appeal the sentence, while Judge Sauer has ordered The Simple Life star to begin serving her time at the Century Regional Detention Center before June 5.

On Saturday, a despondent-looking Hilton was seen leaving a chauffeur-driven SUV and stepping into the Beverly Hills restaurant Prego for lunch, reports the New York Post.

Like other celebrity Los Angeles County inmates who have been incarcerated in the jail, Hilton will be separated from the general population for her own safety, the Associated Press reports. (Among previous names to have served there is former Lost star Michelle Rodriguez, whose 60-day sentence for violating probation terms after her drunken driving arrest in Hawaii ended after barely more than four hours, due to the jail's being overcrowded.)

Each day, the incarcerated are permitted outside their cells for an hour to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor activities or talk on the phone. (Cell phones are not allowed in the jail cells.)

As for food, inmates are offered three-poultry-based low-sodium meals a day. The jail's overseer calls it "a very nice place."

2 comments:

I don't feel sorry for her, but that's because she's just going to get more popular because of this. Think Martha.

Really, what does it matter to her that she's going to jail? She'll only have more appeal now.

I have no tolerance for DD either. But I also have no tolerance for drive-by shooters, corporate characters who lie and scheme and take away people's lives (a la Enron).

I don't think 45 days in prison will do anything negative for Paris. Strict community service and house arrest, maybe. Or perhaps meeting with the families of people who's loved ones have been killed by drunk drivers, to hear their stories. Or maybe even having to raise money - without the help of her own. I think that kind of rehabilitation is far, far more effective.